{"id":128,"date":"2012-05-04T15:44:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2012-05-04T17:02:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:02:23","slug":"top-ten-brians-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/05\/top-ten-brians-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Top ten Brians part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10.<\/strong> Brian the Snail from TV&#8217;s The Magic Roundabout. Annoying, people say. But the right kind of annoying. The endearing kind of annoying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.<\/strong>\u00a0Brian from &#8220;Monty Pythons Life Of Brian&#8221;. He isn&#8217;t the Messiah. And neither are you, just in case you were suffering from that popular delusion. Brian is, however, a very naughty boy. I can&#8217;t help you out on that count.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.<\/strong> Either Brian May or Brian Eno, depending on whether you like lots of hair, a home made guitar, and concern for the welfare of wild animals, including hedgehogs; or very little hair at all, synthesisers, Apple, tech wossnames and concern for matters environmental in a wider sense. Yes, I&#8217;m leaving you a choice. Deal with it. Some days you&#8217;ll choose May, others Eno.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> Brian Clough, football genius. That&#8217;s all there is to be said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.\u00a0<\/strong>Brian Johnson. The Geordie singer feller with the hat from AC\/DC.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Brian Johnson with AC\/DC live in 2008, St Paul, MN, photo Matt Becker\" src=\"http:\/\/badhedgehog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Brian_Johnson-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Johnson with AC\/DC live in 2008, St Paul, MN, photo Matt Becker\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nHis CV is very nearly as impressive as <a title=\"An Encutment Of Hair: male rock stars go long to short\" href=\"http:\/\/badhedgehog.com\/2010\/06\/an-encutment-of-hair-male-rock-stars-go-long-to-short\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Dickinson&#8217;s<\/a>: he is writing a musical based on the legend of Helen of Troy; he competed in the 2012 Rolex 24 at Daytona (endurance racing at the age of 64? HATS OFF TO YOU, SIR!); he set joint second fastest time in the Chevrolet Lacetti on Top Gear&#8217;s Star In a Reasonably Priced Car feature.\u00a0A greater achievement yet has been his success in replacing the much-loved Bon Scott in AC\/DC after Scott&#8217;s sudden death in 1980 \u2013 there is no expectation heavier than that which comes from stepping into the shoes of a dead hero. A canny aul&#8217; gadgie, like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10. Brian the Snail from TV&#8217;s The Magic Roundabout. Annoying, people say. But the right kind of annoying. The endearing kind of annoying. 9.\u00a0Brian from &#8220;Monty Pythons Life Of Brian&#8221;. He isn&#8217;t the Messiah. And neither are you, just in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/05\/top-ten-brians-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}